Palo Alto Networks
Senior Finance Business Analyst (Anaplan)
Palo Alto Networks, Santa Clara, California, us, 95053
Company Description
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
Our Approach to Work
At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!
Job Description
Your Career
Reporting to the Sr Manager, Finance Systems, this role will provide critical support on Anaplan design, functionality, process, and roadmap from the FP&A perspective. This role requires a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with many changing and competing priorities. Collaborating with Finance and IT leaders to create a connective planning solution through Anaplan.
As the FP&A point on the Anaplan system, you will be responsible for managing functional integration, working with Finance to determine use cases, developing business requirements, leading UAT, training, and change management. Also, act as the first line of support for incoming requests and troubleshooting.
In partnership with Palo Alto Networks broader FP&A team, this role will play a key role in developing standardized and scalable forecasting and planning solutions.
Your Impact
The candidate will have a proven track record of partnership and delivering results and will be passionate about enabling financial processes, modeling, reporting, and analysis through BI technologies.Serve as administrator and expert user of Anaplan and act as primary point of contact for troubleshooting and support to the broader FP&A team.Maintain data integrity across systems to ensure FP&A Anaplan is accurate for actuals, data hierarchies, cost centers, product codes, general ledger accounts, etc.Using source data to provide visualization to the end-user.Understand the FP&A team’s current planning processes and identify and lead areas of improvement and simplification.Develop and support ongoing user training to ensure all functional users understand the application capabilities and leverage system capabilities to deliver the optimal user experience to the Finance team.Ad hoc modeling, analysis, and reporting, as required.Qualifications
Your Experience
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Finance, Accounting or related field.Minimum of 3~5 years experience in jobs of increasing responsibility within Finance or Accounting.Experience with financial systems (SAP Analytics Cloud, Hyperion Essbase, Anaplan or similar) highly preferred.Basic understanding of SQL (GCP, Oracle, other relational databases) preferred.Experience in requirements gathering and translating business requirements to technical stories, understanding of unit testing/QA/reconciliation, ability to build and demo proof of concept reports/models.Passion for Data, BI and analytics to drive business value.Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to impart ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.Highly motivated and driven, a self-starter with keen attention to detail and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.Familiarity with data and systems governance processes.Superb attention to detail and a strong commitment to data integrity. Ability to manage multiple deliverables and competing priorities.Comfortable working with ambiguity in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.Hungry and humble attitude, a personal growth and development mindset, and win as a team mentality.Additional Information
The Team
You’re looking for a career with a more fulfilling mission. We have open positions to top talent seeking a challenge. Our finance department performs deep analyses to understand the business and inform the strategic direction of the company. The ideal candidate has exceptional leadership skills, knowledge of financial modeling, business acumen and an innovative mindset to approach problems differently. Our innovation doesn’t stay in Research and Development. Within finance, we seek people who are looking to try new things, while solving business critical equations. If you’re seeking a challenge with a world-wide impact – this is it.
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers who dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: We can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $95,800/yr to $155,100/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: No.Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
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Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
Our Approach to Work
At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!
Job Description
Your Career
Reporting to the Sr Manager, Finance Systems, this role will provide critical support on Anaplan design, functionality, process, and roadmap from the FP&A perspective. This role requires a keen attention to detail, ability to work in a fast-paced environment with many changing and competing priorities. Collaborating with Finance and IT leaders to create a connective planning solution through Anaplan.
As the FP&A point on the Anaplan system, you will be responsible for managing functional integration, working with Finance to determine use cases, developing business requirements, leading UAT, training, and change management. Also, act as the first line of support for incoming requests and troubleshooting.
In partnership with Palo Alto Networks broader FP&A team, this role will play a key role in developing standardized and scalable forecasting and planning solutions.
Your Impact
The candidate will have a proven track record of partnership and delivering results and will be passionate about enabling financial processes, modeling, reporting, and analysis through BI technologies.Serve as administrator and expert user of Anaplan and act as primary point of contact for troubleshooting and support to the broader FP&A team.Maintain data integrity across systems to ensure FP&A Anaplan is accurate for actuals, data hierarchies, cost centers, product codes, general ledger accounts, etc.Using source data to provide visualization to the end-user.Understand the FP&A team’s current planning processes and identify and lead areas of improvement and simplification.Develop and support ongoing user training to ensure all functional users understand the application capabilities and leverage system capabilities to deliver the optimal user experience to the Finance team.Ad hoc modeling, analysis, and reporting, as required.Qualifications
Your Experience
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Finance, Accounting or related field.Minimum of 3~5 years experience in jobs of increasing responsibility within Finance or Accounting.Experience with financial systems (SAP Analytics Cloud, Hyperion Essbase, Anaplan or similar) highly preferred.Basic understanding of SQL (GCP, Oracle, other relational databases) preferred.Experience in requirements gathering and translating business requirements to technical stories, understanding of unit testing/QA/reconciliation, ability to build and demo proof of concept reports/models.Passion for Data, BI and analytics to drive business value.Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to impart ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.Highly motivated and driven, a self-starter with keen attention to detail and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.Familiarity with data and systems governance processes.Superb attention to detail and a strong commitment to data integrity. Ability to manage multiple deliverables and competing priorities.Comfortable working with ambiguity in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.Hungry and humble attitude, a personal growth and development mindset, and win as a team mentality.Additional Information
The Team
You’re looking for a career with a more fulfilling mission. We have open positions to top talent seeking a challenge. Our finance department performs deep analyses to understand the business and inform the strategic direction of the company. The ideal candidate has exceptional leadership skills, knowledge of financial modeling, business acumen and an innovative mindset to approach problems differently. Our innovation doesn’t stay in Research and Development. Within finance, we seek people who are looking to try new things, while solving business critical equations. If you’re seeking a challenge with a world-wide impact – this is it.
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers who dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: We can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $95,800/yr to $155,100/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship?: No.Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
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